Continue building momentum with the approaching season of the awards, Anora He won three awards at the Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday afternoon, including the best feature. The film was also recognized by the director Sean Baker And the leadership of Mickey Madison.
Kieran Culkin won to support him “Real pain,” While Jesse Eisenberg won the movie scenario.
The winner of the Spirit for Best Award for winning the Academy Award for Best Photo in the Four of the past ten years. In 2023 and 2024, the prizes since the Spirit Awards have turned into sexual acting categories with 10 candidates for each of them, and the winner of Oscar Support has been nominated but lost.
In TV categories, “Shane” He won the Best New Written Series Award, while “Baby Reindeer” has swept the prizes for three wins.
In its opening monologue, the host Aidy Bryant referred to this event for the “third or fourth or fourth night in Hollywood”, as she seized a comfortable low -pressure atmosphere that fits a afternoon party that was held in a large tent near the beach in Santa Monica.
With a number of presentations that were postponed in the wake of the forest fires that destroyed Los Angeles last month, there were embarrassing moments in the events, as the providers and hosts are struggling to find the correct tone that still allows a sense of celebration.
“I want to acknowledge that I know it is a little absurd that there will be awards now, but your films are important to people,” said Bryant. “The independent movie is people who work together to build something better. It is better to help rebuild the city of Los Angeles from our society?”
She referred to a box for people to make donations to help movie makers affected by recent forest fires.
“The film is what this city was built,” added Bryant. “And from her sons? A handful of annoying Dorks like us.”
A noisy speech from Sean Baker “Anura”
Accepting the award for the best director, Baker gave the most evening speech. He put his statue down and withdrawn pages from his pocket, began reading an enthusiastic appeal on what he called “the current state of the independent film”.
“I am an independent life,” Baker said, noting that he does not make films to connect cards for large studio projects. “Some of us want to make personal films intended for theatrical version with the topic, which will never be green by the big studios.”
But the case of the Enzy movie was risky and warned.
“The system must change because this is simply not sustainable,” Baker continued, in detail, deepening the average time needed to make an independent movie and the personal costs of managers. “We are creating a product that creates jobs and revenues for the entire industry. We should barely get.”
“Let’s ask for what we deserve. I know that if you are in this room, you have proven that you deserve it. So let’s not appreciate ourselves anymore.”
With the outbreak of the audience in constant chants and applause, Baker appealed to film makers, financiers, sales companies and distributors to work together “to make sustainable films sustainable for creativity and keep the Indie movie alive. This is for all the life of independent films who hold good fighting and waged it.”
How do you face “dark times”
Soul Awards were last year The demonstrators supported the Palestinians Using a loudspeaker outside the tent to inflate their message. Although the general atmosphere this year was not a severe political, the outside world still finds its way to the tent.
What could have been the most political moment in the event – when the movie “There is no other land”, “ A group of Israeli and Palestinian directors won the Documentary Film Award – which ended a little. No one of the movie was in the audience and was not delivered.
But the policies of the new American administration have already had an impact on some of those in the room on Saturday. Hunter Chevir, the transient performer that was nominated for her main performance in “Cuckoo”, This week Her newly released passport controls her. Chevir did not refer to the accident, as she moved to the stage to participate in a prize for transient actor Nava Mao for “Baby Render”.
In her speech, Mao said: “We do not know what will happen, but we know our strength. We know that we define who we are working with. We get what we are working on. Even if he does not feel this way, we have all the power. Because we are people and our work is everything. So we are so. Please, please – let’s stick together.
By accepting the John Casavite Award for a film made with less than a million dollars, the director “Girls” Shuchi Tilatati admitted, “Frankly, these are dark times and we are culture makers. Thank you to all the people who support this work, who support calm rebellion stories.”
The band award went in a text series “How do you die alone?” Which was recently canceled by Holo. When accepting the award, the exhibition star and creator Natasha Rothuel indicated that she would not cry because she took the bacco blockers, but suffocating, regardless of, she said: “Beta blockers need to do more Beta’s ban.”
“How do you die on their own,” added Rothuel, “How do you die on their own” is a presentation about the need to feel a vision, to be appreciated exactly as you are. As for black stories, the vision is not a privilege, it is a necessity. We deserve to take space. “
Rothuel ended her speech by saying, “For a transient society that is being attacked at the present time, know that you are not alone. I see you. We see you. We all see you. We stand with you.”
Acceptance of the award for the new or documentary film series “Hollywood Black,” “I didn’t expect it, so I will say what is in my heart here. If you are really serious about stopping the white national coup against the country – did you hear about it? – If you are serious about stopping this, what about the amplification of black history? Because blacks were in a fascist country all the time.
Josh Wilsh remembers
The Acting President of the Independent Film, Brenda Robinson, gave a speech in the middle of the ceremony in which Josh Wales, the organization’s leader, said long ago died on New Year’s Eve after the fighting of colon cancer for five years. When mentioning the name Wales, the room stormed an emotional applause and applause.
Before the audience led on a second applause, Robinson said: “Josh is a vision of the type that comes once in a lifetime. It is here. This is forever.
In accepting the Robert Al -Taman Award “His three daughters,” Director Azzel Jacobs admitted “Josh Wilsh’s Spirit”, saying: “I am one of the people whose kindness has touched and encouraged them, and I am grateful to him.”
In his speech to win the “Anora” feature award, Baker also pointed out, “I know that we are all thinking about Josh Welsh tonight, a real hero of independent sounds and a wonderful person. We will miss you, Josh. We will miss you. For a long time independent cinema.”
A complete list of the winners of the soul today
Film categories
The best feature
Anora
Producers: Sean Baker, Alex Coco, Samantha Kwan
exit
Sean Baker, “Anura”
scenario
Jesse Eisenberg, “real pain”
The first feature
“Dìdi”
Director: Sean Wang
Producers: Valery Bush, Carlos Lopez Estrada, Josh Peters
The first scenario
Sean Wang, “Didi”
John Casavits Award
(To get the best feature made less than $ 1,000,000)
“Girls will be girls”
Writer and director producer: Shuchi Tatati
Producers: Richa Chadha, Claire Shasan
Penetration
Messi Stella, “My Old Big”
Performance support
Kieran Culkin, “Real Pain” (Searchlight)
Lead
Mickey Madison, “Anura”
Robert Taman Award
“His three daughters”
Director: Azzel Jacobs
Director: Nicole Arbosto
Actors team: Jovan Adibo, Yasmine Brasi, Carrie Kun, Jose Vibus, Rudi Galvan, Natasha Leon, Elizabeth Olsen, Randy Ramos Junior, Jay or. Sanders
Film photography
Gomo Fry, “Boys Nickel”
Liberation
Hansjörg Weissbrich, “September 5”
International movie
“flow”
Director: Gints Zilbalodis
The documentary
“There is no other land”
Managers: Yoval Ibrahim, Basel Adra, Hamdan Bali, Rachel Zour
Product: Fabian Greenburg, cold as Gog Renning
Someone to see the award
Sarah Friedland, “familiar touch”
Fantasy prize
Rachel Elizabeth, a seed, “photographic memory”
Producers Prize
Sarah Winchl
TV categories
The best new text series
“Shane”
Creators/Executive Producers: Rachel Condo, Justin Marx
Executive Producers: Edward L. McDonnell, Michael de Luka, Michael Claville
Participate Executive Producers: Shannon Jose, Andrew McDonald
The best new unprecedented or documentary series
“Hollywood Black”
Executive Producers: Shayla Harris, Dave Serolnik, Stacy Reese, John Kamin, Justin Simyan, Kyle Lorsen, Forest Whitaker, Nina Yang Bongvovi, Jeffrey Schwarrs, Amy Godman Cass, Michael Wort, Jill Burkhard
Participate Executive Producers: David C Brown, Lorenz Grant
Performance support in a new text series
Nava Mao, “Baby Ringer”
Performing lead in a new writing series
Richard Jad, “Child Dindi”
Performing a break in a new writing series
Jessica Goning, “Baby Ringer”
A band in a new text series
“How do you die alone?”
Acting Band: Melissa Dubri, Jaili Hamidi, Keelin Doriel Jones, Arki Kandola, El Lauren, Michel McCloid, Chris “CP” Powell, Conrad Richamura, Natasha Rothuel, Joko Sims
